Welcome to our weekly What To Watch television and streaming guide. This week features Soho Theatre’s Shedding A Skin, The Importance of Being Oscar, The Story of Scottish Art and Billie: In Search of Billie Holiday. Shedding A Skin Soho Theatre on-demand, available now Following a sell-out run in May 2021, Soho Theatre presents this award-winning play by Amanda Wilkin on demand for the first time. Shedding a Skin is a play about finding kindness in unexpected places, about connecting with what our elders can teach us, in the sense that new skin can honour old skin. The play follows themes of joy, healing and protest. Get tickets here.
Upstart: why it took the West so long to pay attention to China’s rise
Beijing has accumulated power by avoiding emulating the methods of its main competitor, argues Oriana Skylar-Mastro in her new book.